Russia on Tuesday said 134 people were hospitalized after an explosion in Ukraine's Kakhovka dam last month. "According to the updated data, 134 people were hospitalized with various injuries," Russia's state-run TASS news agency reported. At least 48 people were killed, Russia said...

 France has returned 35 people — 10 women and 25 minors — from a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to Islamic State extremists. Al-Hol Camp — named after a town near the Iraqi border — holds about 51,000 people, including many widows, wives and...

Jordan's foreign minister Monday called for international investment into conflict-ravaged Syria's crippled infrastructure to speed up refugee returns. Ayman Safadi made the remarks during a visit to the capital Damascus, where he met with Syrian President Bashar Assad and his counterpart,...

Pope Francis has condemned the burning of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in Sweden. “Any book considered sacred by its authors must be respected out of respect for its believers,” the pope said in an interview with United Arab Emirates newspaper al-Ittihad, published on Monday. "I...